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<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20050103164828
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001181431-05-000318
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20041231
FILED AS OF DATE:		20050103
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20050103

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FULLER H B CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000039368
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ADHESIVES & SEALANTS [2891]
		IRS NUMBER:				410268370
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1203

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1200 WILLOW LAKE BLVD
		CITY:			ST PAUL
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55110-5132
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6126453401

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			VAN RODEN JOHN C JR
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001080246

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09225
		FILM NUMBER:		05503003

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		800 KING STREET P O BOX 231
		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			DE
		ZIP:			19899
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3024293315

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		125 S DAKOTA AVE
		CITY:			SIOUX FALLS
		STATE:			SD
		ZIP:			57104
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            <rptOwnerZipCode>55164-0683</rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
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        <footnote id="F1">Directors' Stock Incentive Plan: These shares were awarded pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company 1998 Directors' Stock Incentive Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Deferred Compensation Plan: These units convert into shares of common stock on a 1-for-1 basis.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan:  These stock units were acquired pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company's Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan.  These stock units will be converted into shares of common stock upon retirement, death, disability or certain specified events, all as defined in such plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan Dividend Reinvestment:  This amount includes stock units acquired pursuant to a dividend equivalent feature of the Directors' Deferred Compensation Plan.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

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<PRE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, John C. van Roden, Jr.,
hereby constitute and appoint Patricia L. Jones, Albert P.L. Stroucken, Timothy J.
Keenan and John A. Feenan, and each of them, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for me and in my name, place
and stead, to sign any reports on Form 3 (Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership of
Securities), Form 4 (Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities) and
Form 5 (Annual Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities) relating to transactions
by me in Common Stock or other securities of H.B. Fuller Company, and all amendments
thereto, and to file the same, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
appropriate securities exchange, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each
of them, or their substitutes, full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratify and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This Power of Attorney shall be effective until
such time as I deliver a written revocation thereof to the above-named attorneys-in-fact
and agents.

Dated:  September 29, 2004				/s/  John C. van Roden, Jr.

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